Then you obviously haven't been paying attention.
Yet, McVeigh, Reid and Kaczynski (all terrorists as you declared) were tried
AS CRIMINALS in a court of law like everyone else who commits a crime. Did you somehow ignore this fact? McVeigh & Kaczynski's acts of terrorism were successful in injuring AND killing innocent people. Abdulmutallab didn't kill anyone, even if his initial intent was to do so. Yet he's the one that needs to be denied the same criminal rights as the other three? By all means, talk more moralistic nonsense about the past as you try to explain why it was perfectly fine for three other known terrorists to go through our court system but this particular one isn't?
And let me give you a hint... saying that "we're currently at war" isn't a substantial excuse. We were also at war when Reid was caught in 2002.
Attention all Conservatives!!! The "Founding Fathers" would like for you to stop poking at their dead corpses and move the hell on.
I'm sick of these ridiculous arguments about preserving what a group of men thought back in the 1700s as if they, themselves, knew it all and didn't think what they created in the Constitution would not need to be reassessed and adjusted as the Nation moved forward. Why else would they write provisions that would allow any measure listed in the Constitution to be changed by issuing an amendment? It's a pathetic excuse, one that you've hid behind way too many times. You use this excuse as much as a religious zealot uses the King James Bible to deflect issues surrounding social inequality... just like a pro-lifer hiding behind the picture of a baby to avoid talking about sensitive issues regarding abortion. If the Constitution was a shield, it would have been destroyed to bits decades ago... or at least after the birthers were done exploiting it.
I don't deny history. I just don't yearn to live like it's 1788, nor do I want our country to regress to such an antiquated way of life that doesn't take into consideration any kind of progressive growth towards diversity and social justice.
So wait... when liberals were comparing the current War in Iraq to Vietnam you wanted to call them crazy. But now, you want to draw parallels with a wannabe terrorist with explosives in his panties, who got cold feet about bombing a plane, to the plights our Nation experienced during World War II? Can you make another inane and completely over exaggerated statement?
So sayeth Judge NickySixxy...
Out of all of the unbelievable lines of equivocated bullshit you've let spew out of your brain, this one takes the cake. First off, more people in America are actually FOR the Death Penalty. It's been that way since the mid 60s and not a single thing has changed. So much for portraying people in this country as "too delicate" to handle volatile matters.
http://sentencing.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451574769e20120a5e48900970b-pi
And we still use the same judicial procedure that was created back in the 1700s. The only difference now is that we have a more elaborate system in place that helps to prevent people from rushing to rash judgements just to satisfy their sadistic need to beat up on the boogeyman.
No wonder people like labeling you 666.
There isn't a need for it. Your own insecurities about our Nation, our Government and how it conducts things tell you that you do. Grow a backbone, or at least a set of balls.
Because deep down, it's fueled by an enormous sense of paranoia, bigotry and institutionalized racism. That screams such extreme levels of bullshit that I simply will not tolerate from any person who claims to be an adult. How old are you again? Does your calendar say 2010 or do you still have a picture of Lester Maddox on your bedroom wall? You can cite as many historical references you want to validate your psychosis, but it doesn't change a thing.
Yes it does. Yet, you're to scared to address it... and it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a "lib" either.
